Book Pricing Strategies to Boost Indie Authors’ Sales
by Penny Sansevieri Sometimes the simplest thing you can do to give your sales a boost is to play around with book pricing. While completing a book in and of…
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From Farsi to English, and Passive Voice
by Bobbie Christmas Q: I have recently written a novel in Farsi and I have translated the first seventeen pages of it to English. Even though the story line has…
All about Characters
by Bobbie Christmas Q: I have a challenge with keeping up with the characters in a trilogy I’m writing. From one book to another I forget small details that could…
Second-Edition Decisions, Capitalizing Titles, and Queries
by Bobbie Christmas Q: I wrote a book about fifteen years ago and sold the rights to a publishing house. The book sold slowly, but it finally sold out. The…
Permissible Changes to Quotations, Single Quote Punctuation, Capitalizing Directions, and Oceangoing Vessels
by Bobbie Christmas Q: I have two questions. In including a quote from [source redacted] in an article I’m writing, I have these challenges: 1. He was British so his…